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was highly creditable, as she certain- 

 ly proved herself mistress of the situ- 

 ation. 



President Abbott now introduced 

 to the audience Hon. J. R. Rippey, 

 secretary of state board of agriculture, 

 who made a befitting little speech, and 

 then we were carried almost to the 

 " seventh heaven „ by the charming 

 strains of two violin solos by Prof. 

 Bartholdt, at the conclusion of which 

 we felt there was nought in the violin 

 he could not bring out. 



T. B. Terry of Ohio, well known 

 as " Potato Terry ," and also dubbed 

 the " clover crank," was next present- 

 ed, and gave US a short but pointed 

 lecture on the fertilizing of land by 

 the use of clover. Nearly twice as 

 much clover as timothy could be 

 raised, worth one-third more money, 

 beside bringing up the land one-third 

 faster. Between potatoes planted on 

 clover enriched land and those plant- 

 ed on highly manured land, the two 

 lots lying side by side, both otherwise 

 treated the same, the former came 

 out $50 per acre ahead. What un- 

 der like conditions made ten bushels 

 more on the clovered land ? 



Dr. Miller next related his experi- 

 ence in amusing a neighbor's little 

 boy by telling him the story of 

 " George Washington and His Little 

 Hatchet," which however great a fail- 

 ure it proved in the case of the boy, 

 was a grand success with the grown- 

 up girls and boys who had the privi- 

 lege of hearing him on this occasion. 

 This closed the exercises of the never- 

 to-be-forgotten evening. 



THURSDAY MORNING. 



Thursday morning's exercises were 

 begun by the taking up of the ques- 

 tion box, and "The Disposition of our 



Honey Crops" was discussed in quite 



a lively manner by several members, 

 George W. York leading out Said 

 honey must be of good quality and in 

 suitable packages for either home or 

 distant market. Recommended the 

 home market, as overcrowded commis- 

 sion men could not always give the 

 necessary attention to each lot re- 

 ceived, and some being held over was 

 finally sold at much reduced prices. 

 Knew of one lot of twelve pounds 

 sold on Water street, Chicago, for $5, 

 and another lot consigned to a firm on 

 the same street, which on investiga- 

 tion proved a myth, as no such firm 

 ever existed in that place or vicinity. 



All were united in building up the 

 home markets. Supply and demand 

 govern the price of all things, and 

 should all the honey be thrown on 

 the city markets, perhaps deluging 

 them, the supply being so much great- 

 er than the demand, down goes the 

 price. 



Reputation enabled President Ab- 

 bott to sell extracted honey for 15c, 

 and he recommended that bee-keepers 

 never allow themselves to get out of 

 honey with which to supply the wants 

 of their customers. If they failed to 

 have of their own, better buy of those 

 who had a good article. 



F. H. Richards seemed to think 

 selling another's product in lieu of 

 your own, would be lying without 

 speaking, whereupon Dr. Peiro (Yes, 

 there's something else I learned — 

 that name is pronounced as if spelled 

 Paro) wanted to know how that "tine- 

 haired thing" was done, as they of 

 Chicago had use of all the different 

 methods (patented or otherwise I pre- 

 sume he meant) of lying, and as Dr. 

 Peiro is one of those very earnest 



